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Wendell Willkie

3/21/2021

Has the One World Idea's Time Come Again?

by Samuel Zipp

Can remembering the “one world” vision for America’s global role—largely forgotten today – help us get beyond both America First and the “liberal world order”?

SOURCE: Boston Review
8/18/2020

The Conceit of American Indispensability [review]

In his new book, Samuel Zipp Zipp explores the resonance of Willkie’s international ideas through the story of his most quixotic venture.

SOURCE: Zocalo Public Square
3/29/2020

When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’

by Samuel Zipp

In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together.

SOURCE: The New Yorker
9-10-18

Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy?

by Thomas Mallon

He ran for President as a business mogul with no political experience, but his similarities with Donald Trump end there.

SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-17-16

Wendell Willkie’s 1940 nomination: When party establishments mattered

by George F. Will

It was the establishment that installed Willkie and it was over the objections of conservatives.

SOURCE: Bruce W. Dearstyne
6-26-16

Lessons Donald Trump Can Learn from Wendell Willkie

What Trump could learn by studying history.

3-1-16

The Election of 1940 and the Might-Have-Been that Makes One Shudder

by Ronald L. Feinman

What would have happened if Wendell Willkie was elected in 1940.

SOURCE: NYT
8-28-15

Before Trump or Fiorina, There Was Wendell Willkie

by Michael Beschloss

Only once in American history has a major political party granted its prize to someone whose principal qualification was to have served as a corporate chief executive.

SOURCE: OUPblog
8-11-15

Wendell Willkie: a forerunner to Donald Trump

by Lewis L. Gould

The crowds in the galleries chanted “We want Willkie,” and the delegates yielded to what seemed an irresistible tide.